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Sunday, 20 March 2016

If you want to get all the BIOS information in Ubuntu, there is a handy terminal command you can use.

dmidecode - According to the manual, dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. Information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware. While this is a good point in terms of report speed and safeness, this also makes the presented information possibly unreliable.

You need to first install dmidecode in your Ubuntu system to get the BIOS information. Use the following command:

sudo apt-get install dmidecode - It will ask for your root password.

ambarish@ambarish-ubuntu:/dev$ sudo apt-get install dmidecode

[sudo] password for ambarish:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

dmidecode is already the newest version.

dmidecode set to manually installed.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Once done successfully, use the following command to get the BIOS release date:

Also, to get the other BIOS releated information, use the command sudo biosdecode. It will display the structure of your BIOS along with several other informations like Router ID, OEM identifier, No of structures and max structure size.